Upper House

Upper House is a house, formerly a farmhouse and later a hunting lodge, built in 1754 with substantial additions dating from 1905. It is constructed of coursed squared gritstone and rock-faced gritstone rubble with gritstone dressings and a stone slate roof. The building has stone gable copings with moulded kneelers and stone gable and ridge stacks. The plan is quadrangular, featuring a central courtyard.

The west elevation displays the original 18th-century farmhouse to the south. A central doorcase leads to a modern glazed door, flanked by three-light flush mullion windows; the northern window has been enlarged. Above are a four-light and a three-light flush mullion window. An early 20th-century wing is visible in rock-faced rubble, culminating in a crosswing and an embattled tower projecting from the earlier farmhouse. The tower includes a four-centred moulded arch to a porch above a three-light mullioned window with a dripmould and sundial. The inner pointed door exhibits Gothick tracery. To the north of the tower are two five-light and one three-light mullion windows with dripmoulds. Various single-light windows are present, including an oval window. The first and second floors have further two-light, five-light, and single windows, including another oval opening. The dressing to this wing is rock-faced. A northern range is in a similar style, but with coursed stonework. The western section has embattled parapets with further mullioned or single light windows with dripmoulds. A large pointed arch connects to the courtyard. Beyond is a lower garage wing.

The south elevation features an embattled two-storey tower with a four-centred arch below and two stepped buttresses. A four-light mullion window sits above, with round-headed lights and a dripmould with scroll stops. A bartizan is situated on the east corner of the tower. To the east is a single-storey hall with low eaves, through which protrudes a large mullioned and transomed window with leaded lights, featuring stained glass. A door lintel is dated 1905. Two two-light mullion windows are present to the west.

The east wing is a single storey with two and three-light mullion windows. The internal courtyard is paved and cobbled. The rear elevations are consistent with the facades. Four semi-circular steps lead to the hall door, which has a lintel dated 1754.

The interior of the hall includes fine medieval timbers reused from a church, incorporated into the ceiling and on the walls.